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Small Business Closure Scenarios

Small Business Labs

Based on an industry by industry analysis (1), our base case estimate is 21% of U.S.    On average about 8% of small businesses closed each year between 1990 and 2015 and 10% closed at the height of the Great Recession in 2009. .   employer small businesses will close in 2020 (2) (3). 

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How Many Employees Will Small Business Layoff?

Small Business Labs

Based on an industry by industry analysis of small business employment, our base case estimate is employer small businesses will layoff about 21 million employees through July (1). This is similar to the small business layoff share in the Great Recession of 2008-2009.     Under the base case estimate, the overall U.S.

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Kelp Food Is Making Waves in Restaurants and Supermarkets—and Helping Conservation Efforts

Success

Making kelp food mainstream One of the longest-running kelp-reneurs is Atlantic Sea Farms, which launched in 2009 in Maine as the first commercially viable seaweed farm in the United States. According to [retail data analysis firm] Spins, in the last 52 weeks, we’re the second fastest growing plant-based food brand.”

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3 Steps to Unveil Your Full Human Power Through ‘Unfocus’

Success

It has two main components as defined by Duckworth and Quinn in 2009: “consistency of interest” and “perseverance of effort.” Inspired by the research of psychology professor Angela Duckworth, grit is widely considered an important predictor of success and performance.

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The One Thing That May Lead to Better Hires

On The Job

Specifically, the authors of the study -- Sameer Srivastava of the University of California, Berkeley, and Govin Manian and Christopher Potts of Stanford University -- used linguistic analysis to look at more than 10 million internal emails sent from a technology company from 2009 to 2014.

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Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT

The Small Business Blog

Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 17, 2010 As a small business owner, or entrepreneur, you have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis. But with a heavy workload, is it really necessary for your small business to complete a SWOT analysis? Opportunities : external factors that will make success easier.

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Want to Change Career? What Does It Take?

Job Advice Blog

The answer to the question regarding what one has to offer will be an analysis of skills–such as marketing, presentation, sales, research, and data analysis–and then identification of whether one has the traits that support those skills: is the person aggressive, independent, articulate, persuasive, logical, visionary?

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